I had top surgery (double incision with nipple grafts) in March of 2017. I ran into a couple of complications 1) a suture opened up at the corner of my left-hand side and 2) my nipple falling off at the left-hand side also (this caused to have different sized nipples and areola. I'm hoping a tattoo will help this). Because I needed a couple of revisions, I got the ok to use scar treatments a year after my surgery. My experience with scar strips wasn't great, I tried various different ones throughout the years and it always ended up the same —giving my scars a rash. I gave up on trying to do anything and three years later I’m trying a new way of fading these scars.
I started using Mederma every other day. The days I don’t use Mederma I’ll be using a moisturizer. I was using Vitamin E Fruit of the Earth , but my scars didn’t react well to that. I’ve recently bought some plain organic and unrefined Shea butter and plan on using that instead. I also added massaging my scars in the shower as well.
Right now, here's how my scars look like:
To folks who have had top surgery and working on fading their scars, if you have any regimens that worked for you, let me know! Thanks in advance.
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